Spas in Britain and in France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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• Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• Scienze sociali
• Storia

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Originating from the age-old belief that water springing from the depths was endowed with healing properties, spas, which first blossomed in the West during the heyday of the Roman Empire, again gained importance and fame in the 18th and 19th centuries, as the increasing medicalisation of thermal water drew crowds to the best-sited or best-organise

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2006

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